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Elizabeth City: Smaller area, but more promising. Halifax: Increased acreage, owing 
to failure in tobacco-plants; well worked, and looking healthy. Charles City: In- 
jured by a severe drought for the last four weeks. Highland: Never better. Meck- 
lenburgh: Looking well where worked in time. Northampton: Promising, notwith- 
standing the drought. 
Norte CArorina.—Rutherford: Injured by overflow; replanted to a considerable 
extent. Wilkes: Badly injured by freshet June 17. Pasquotank: Favorable season for 
cultivating ; late, but looks well. Caldwell: Much lost by overflow and other injury 
from rain-storms. Cherokee: A small worm has proved so destructive to the crop on 
low land that not more than 33 to 50 per cent. of a crop can be raised on such Jand. 
Alamance: Late, but good stand and promising. Wilson: Fair prospect for a good 
crop. Caswell: Very promising. Duplin: Better thanever known. Person: Increase 
in acreage, owing to failure of tobacco-plants. Pitt: Very favorable weather in June, 
and a large crop promised. Nash: Early planted, very good; late,a bad stand and 
small. Beaufort: Very fine. Hertford: Increased acreage in good condition. Polk: 
Much wasted away, and much under water so long that it rotted; more than 33 per 
cent. planted over. 
SoutH CarRoLina.—Ldgefield: Small, but good stand and vigorous. Laurens: Vast 
quantities washed out or killed by devastating storms; munch replanted. Beaufort: 
A rain-storm in June, lasting a week, during which upward of 15 inches of water fell, 
did great injury to the crop. Clarendon: In a critical state for want of rain. Colleton : 
Never better. Chester: On low lands, along water-courses, almost destroyed by over- 
dow. Georgetown: A good stand, checked by drought in May,and now too wet to 
plow. Lexington: Inferior, having suffered first from drought and then from excessive 
rain. Marlborough: Very good. Richland: Much injured and destroyed by a freshet. 
That destroyed planted over, with a fair prospect. airfield: Fair prospect for a good 
crop. Horry: Badly damaged by heavy rains, June 10 to 20. Spartansburgh: Heavy 
rains June 11 to 18, flooded all bottoms, and corn along large streams was completely 
_ destroyed. The farmers have planted it over. Orangeburgh: Very much injured by 
heavy rain-storms. 
GEORGIA—Dooly: Promises a fine yield. Elbert: A freshet in June destroyed corn 
and cotton in the bottom-lands, but these Jands are being replanted with corn. Fannin: 
Never better. Thomas: Never better, and larger acreage than since the war. For- 
ward corn is made, and one er two showers will make the whole crop good as the 
ground can bear. Yowns: Very late and much damaged by a recent freshet. Troup: 
Prospect very good. Upson: Finest prospect for ten years. Gwinnett: Unusually fine 
and forward on upland; too wet on lowland. Clayton: Never more promising on up- 
land ; too wet on bottoms. Columbia: Looking well. Hall: Very small; too much 
rain. Hancock: More planted than in any year since the war, and the finest ever seen. 
Henry: Acreage increased 25 percent. Laurens: Very small, but healthy and vigorous. 
Madison: Bad stand and two weeks late; on lowlands 30 per cent. was destroyed by 
overflow ; now being replanted. Afitchell: The most promising since 1865; one more 
““eood season” and the largest yield for years will be secured. Rabun: Very much 
damaged by freshets and bud-worms. Randolph: Very good. Spalding: Promises to 
exceed any crop for fifteen years. Union: Good on uplands, but no stand on bottoms, 
owing to ravages of bud-worms. Whitfield: Much injured on lowlands by the great 
quantities of rain in June. Dodge: Very good prospect. Haralsen: Two weeks late, 
but looking well. Jefferson: Good. McDuffie: A dry May and wet June have been the 
life of the crop. Cobb: Finest prospect for years. Walton: Very promising. Hart: 
Good crop. Jackson: Washed away on bottoms; on upland good where well worked. 
Lincoln: The great profusion of rain 11th to 18th of June, overilowing the bottoms, 
entirely destroyed whole crop; a large portion has been replanted and is doing finely. 
Terrell: Prospect much improved during June. Appling: Rather backward, owing to 
dry and extreme hot weather, which caused it to burn badly, and especially that well 
manured. Carroll: Though small, looks very fine; well worked. 
FLoripa—WMadison: Greater acreage and better condition than last year. Jackson: 
Well worked and looks well. Gadsden: The prospect very flattering. 
AvABAMA.—Baldwin: First planting nearly all killed. Clarke: Early and Jate 
planted doing well. Greene: Poor prospect. Crenshaw: Good prospect on dry land. 
Calhoun: Prosperous. Jefferson: Late ten days, but fast recovering. Barbour: Free 
from grass, and the season very favorable. Lauderdale: The cut-worm has been very 
destructive on all low lands. Blount: Backward. Conecuh: Well worked out, and 
aa Colbert: Large and very fine crop. Cherokee: Looks very well where culti- 
vated. 
MIssIssippPl.—Jefferson : Ruined by long drought. Lincoln: Maiterially injured by a 
drought through the whole of June. Lee: Late three to four weeks, and foul, owing 
to damages by heavy floods June 1 and 15; some yet to plant. Grenada: Promising 
where well cultivated. Amite: Increased acreage, and greater attention to the crop 
than for several years. Pike: Doing well. Perry: Looks 10 per cent. better than last 
year. Monroe: Will make enough for home consumption. Lowndes: The prospect not 
